About Counselling

Why Counselling?

I offer a space where you can think more openly about your experience, to better understand yourself, your relationships, and how you want to live.

For some people, this begins with a sense that something isn’t quite right, even if it’s difficult to put into words. For others, there may be something more clearly defined that they want to explore. Therapy can provide a place to slow things down, reflect, and begin to make sense of what is happening.

How can I help?

I work in a way that is reflective, collaborative and shaped around you.

Rather than following a fixed structure, we can take time to explore what feels most important, and how you would like to approach it. This might involve noticing patterns in your life and relationships, understanding how past experiences continue to have an impact, or creating space to sit with feelings that are often pushed aside.

Over time, this process can support you to feel less stuck, more grounded in yourself, and more able to move forward in a way that feels meaningful.

How might we work together?

I work in an integrative way, which means I draw on a range of perspectives depending on what you bring.

This could include:

  • exploring how your past is shaping your present, and how you want to respond to that
  • thinking about how wider cultural or social contexts have influenced your experience
  • having space to reflect on your feelings within a safe and supportive relationship
  • working more practically with tools or strategies, where this feels useful

Our work will be guided by what you are looking for, and can evolve over time.

Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity Focused Work

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My practice is GSRD (Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity) informed, which means that I have knowledge and experience of working with a wide range of issues related to gender identity, sexuality, and different relationship styles like polyamory and relationship anarchy. I have extensive training and experience in supporting those who identify as LGBTQ+, as well as identifying within the community myself. I specialise in online LGBT therapy and polyamory therapy. I am kink aware and a sex-worker friendly therapist. These aspects of your identity will only be the focus of our work if you want them to be, and I take an accepting and affirmative approach to these areas.

Neurodivergence

I have undertaken additional training around supporting people who are ADHD and/or autistic, and those who identify as HSP.  I take a neuroaffirming approach to working with neurodivergence; this means that our therapy relationship can be one in which we drop neurotypical expectations of how you ‘should’ be in therapy, and find ways of connecting and being together than work best for you.

Intersectionality, Difference and Diversity

In our counselling work we may look together at how aspects of your identity such as your age, gender, class, race, sexual orientation, religion and other characteristics have had an impact on who you are and your life experiences, where this feels relevant. I acknowledge the wider issues of power and oppression that may particularly impact marginalised groups, as well as celebrating the unique joys, meaning and resilience that can come from living with an identity that has been perceived or treated as ‘other’.

I believe that it is important to make space for all aspects of yourself in the therapy room, and explore how the wider context we live in impacts both your life and our relationship as counsellor and client.

Psychedelic Integration Therapy

Psychedelic therapy is a growing field, with contemporary research contributing to an increasing body of evidence that use of psychedelics in a therapeutic setting can help with a range of mental health issues. An increasing number of people are seeking such experiences at clinics or in ceremonial settings around the world, have participated in research trials, or have had psychedelic experiences in other settings.

I do not offer psychedelic therapy in this way, however I welcome those who may wish to explore psychedelic experiences that they have had, using therapy sessions to make meaning of and integrate these experiences.